[ubuntu-uk] Dirac playback under Ubuntu Edgy
Alan Pope
alan at popey.com
Thu Nov 2 21:55:01 GMT 2006
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:48:53PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> With the discussion about the BBC and open standards, I noticed someone
> mentioned Dirac. Its been a while since I looked at their pages and I
> see there are packages on Edgy for Dirac. I have installed the packages
> and downloaded some sample videos but I can't seem to find anything to
> play them.
>
> Does anyone know how I can play Dirac files on Edgy?
>
The dirac downloads page lists a patch for mplayer.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102564
So unless someone has compiled and packaged it then you'd need to go get the mplayer source,
patch it and compile it yourself.
Cheers,
Al.
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